Journalist and writer Michel Meyer, co-founder of Franceinfo and correspondent in Germany for several media for more than fifteen years, died Wednesday at the age of 82, announced, Thursday, July 31, his daughter at the France-Presse agency (AFP).
Born in 1942 in Schirmeck in the Bas-Rhin, Michel Meyer was a journalist and editor-in-chief at the French Radio Television (ORTF) office, permanent delegate of antenna 2 for the RFA, the GDR, Poland and Denmark. He was also a permanent correspondent from Radio France to Bonn and correspondent for L’Express.
In 1986, he participated in the creation of Franceinfo before directing the information of Radio France and the antennas of Radio France Internationale (RFI). He also took over the management of the France Bleu network in 2003.
A fine connoisseur of German culture, Michel Meyer is the author or the co -author of many books, of which Dictionary in love with Germany (Lead, 2019), Berlin Wall, the world after (Larousse, 2019), Secret story of the fall of the Berlin Wall (Odile Jacob, 2009, reissued in 2019); He contributed to the work The Germans without a miracle (Armand Colin, 1983).
He was married and father of four children.
